How Musa Bihi is handling the Berbera base issue
Under pressure from the Emirates, the Somaliland president has little room for manoeuvre… [...]
Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE), who are allies of circumstance in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), are moving into East Africa so as to combat the Houthi rebels in Yemen more effectively. Behind their shared wish to control the Red Sea, however, both are courting countries in the region in the service of their own interests.
Under pressure from the Emirates, the Somaliland president has little room for manoeuvre… [...]
With Turkey poised to open a training camp for the Somali National Army (SNA) in Mogadishu the United Arab Emirates is equally building several military sites in Somalia. The two countries are locked in a struggle for influence against a [. [...]
Already running commercial ports in Djibouti and Berbera, the UAE are developing more and more military installations on the Red Sea, to Ethiopia’s consternation. [...]
Amidst a high media blaze, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir went on an official visit to Riyadh for a meeting with King Salman bin Abdelaziz on 24 October. The Indian Ocean Newsletter has learnt that this visit was preceded on [. [...]
A fact-finding mission made up of Egyptian and UAE officers has just examined the possibility of using Berbera airport in [...]
Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE), who are allies of circumstance in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), are moving into East Africa so as to combat the Houthi rebels in Yemen more effectively. Behind their shared wish to control the Red Sea, however, both are courting countries in the region in the service of their own interests. [...]
Ethiopia, a staunch ally of the United States, will have its work cut out to contain the hostility of its Eritrean and Egyptian neighbours, who in turn have support from certain Arab countries, namely Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [. [...]
According to our sources, Admiral Abdullah bin Suntan al-Sultan appears to be headed for the door as Saudi Arabia's naval [...]
In recent weeks, seizures of arms shipments on fishing boats in the Gulf of Aden have abounded, although the investigations by Western and Somalian authorities have not been able to identify the organised networks. Whatever their origins, their country of [. [...]
Despite some headway that was made during discreet negotiations between Yemen's Houthi rebels and the Saudi Arabian government earlier this month, a resolution to the conflict seems a long way off. [...]
President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh never misses an opportunity to go to Riyadh to celebrate his good relations with King Salman [...]
According to information obtained by Intelligence Online, the United Arab Emirates has a secret base in Eritrea that it is using as a launch pad for its fighter planes in Yemen.` [...]
Failing to break the ice with the UAE, President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is trying to thaw his country’s relations with Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Qatar. IOG has managed to win the Gulf countries back to his country, using Djibouti’s strategic [. [...]
During his official visit to Riyadh on 18 and 19 October, the Djibouti Head of State Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) [...]
According to a military source, two battalions of 450 Sudan Defence Force soldiers landed in Port Aden on 18 and [...]
In a meeting in Tangiers on August 20, the Emirati and Saudi military chiefs carved up Yemen into future zones of influence. [...]
President Isaias Afwerkin of Eritrea has begun to implement the [...]
Following the altercation in Djibouti on 27 April between Wahib Moussa Kalinleh, the commander of Forces aériennes djiboutiennes (FAD – Djibouti air force), and Ali Al Shihi, Vice Consul of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Djibouti and the UAE broke [. [...]
The reconciliation between Tehran and the Palestinian organisation Hamas has been sealed with the signing of a weapons shipments deal, according to Intelligence Online's sources. [...]
For DP World (DPW), the contract it signed on 9 May to run Berbera Port (ION 1427 and click HERE to see our special report) is primarily a $442 million industrial operation. But in the Horn of Africa, it is [. [...]
After dilly-dallying for years, Silanyo finally awarded the concession to run Berbera Port to the UAE. We take a look behind the scenes. [...]
A new twist in the saga to obtain the concession and contract for the management of the port of Berbera (click here to read our special report)! The proposal by the French operator Bollore Africa Logistics (BAL) was almost buried [. [...]
According to our sources, the Emirates company supplying security systems [...]
The United Arab Emirates wants to give financial support to the rival authorities of Somalia and Somaliland. [...]
The trials and tribulations in Djibouti of the Dubai-based holding [...]